A California wildfire that started on Wednesday afternoon continues to burn, having destroyed over 35,000 acres as of Thursday afternoon, with only a tiny portion contained. California has already been hit with massive wildfires this year,

The Madre Fire ignited Wednesday afternoon in San Luis Obispo and is 5% contained as of Thursday morning, according to Cal Fire.

It comes as the search continues for seven missing after a fireworks warehouse explosion in Northern California.

(Reuters) -Seven people were missing after a fire and powerful explosion leveled a commercial fireworks facility in rural northern California, authorities said on Wednesday. Aerial footage from local news media showed the large warehouse-like building blown to pieces Tuesday evening in an enormous,

Seven people are still "unaccounted for" after several explosions at a fireworks warehouse resulted in a fire in Northern California's Yolo County, officials said.It happened Tuesday evening in the community of Esparto at Devastating Pyrotechnics.